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Who We Are - Statewide Notification Assn

New Hampshire StateWide Notification Association is registered with the state of New Hampshire as Statewide New Hampshire Notification Association. We were organized in 1988 and was the first system of it's kind in New Hampshire and Northern New England. Statewide is made up of Fire Service enthusiasts. Many are members of area Fire Departments. Statewide announces Working and Multiple Alarm Fires (10-75) and Hazardous Materials Incidents (10-80). We dispatch other incidents involving significant fire-rescue service response, such as Motor Vehicle Accidents (10-25) involving entrapment, difficult extrication, Medical Helicopter, or Hospital Trauma Team Activation .

Members that go to Working Fire incidents also give progress reports on the fire for other Statewide members, fire buffs or media members enroute or monitoring the fire. Statewide uses a series of 10-Codes to report on incidents and/or general traffic between units.

Our web page, one of the first buff related sites in New England, has been in existence since Nov. 1995, offering news, photos, video, audio, incident logs, frequencies and other items of interest.


For membership information, please attend the next meeting of Statewide. Check the info in the Directors Corner, on the home page, for the next meeting date and location.
OR
For info, write:
Statewide NH Notification Association
PO Box 873
Amherst NH 03031

Membership Application HTML

Membership Application MS Word doc


Currently there is no direct e-mail address for the Statewide Membership Committee. The webmaster is not a member of the membership committee and can not handle your requests for membership. Please download the membership form and mail it in.
NOTE: We are not affiliated with any state, county or local government


E-Mail Webmaster     statewidewebmaster (at) yahoo (dot) com   (Statewide 91)

The Statewide Webmaster, John Bolduc, SW91, was born in Nashua NH during the Eisenhower administration. Very early years were spent on Crown Hill on one of the only sections not affected by the great fire of 1931. It was here were I first became tantalized with radios and shortwave, even at a young age. My dab carried me to my first fire early on Jan 22, 1961. In the middle of the night a house near the Arlington Street Church had some heavy flames showing. This was one of many fires we would gather together and go to.
We later moved to the Robinson Road/Erion Field/Hayward's Ice Cream neighborhood in Nashua.

SW91
The Webmaster - SW91 with his crystal scanners, Bearcat 101, and RELM 2-way
From this location you did not need much for radios/scanners to hear police and fire action. Most fire activity for southern NH, including Nashua was on 154.190. Manchester and Hudson was on 33.680 low-band. Milford and Lakes` Region was on 33.900. Boston fire was on 33.740.

Nearly all the police departments were on 155.130, including Nashua, Merrimack, Hudson, Tyngsboro. Back then the NH State Police had some links up around 173 MHz in addition to 44.94 low-band and 155.655, 156.090.

My first eight years of schooling was on Spring Street in Nashua just around the time when the "new" post office was built. Yearly school visits were made to the old Central Fire Station until it closed. I then went to Nashua High on Elm Street when all four years were "dual-sessions" due to extreme overcrowding. We had 3200 students in a school built for 2000. I later attended NHCTC-Nashua and New Hampshire College (SNHU) for electronics and computer technology. I also taken various courses in journalism, photography, business law and web publishing.

In addition to the photo are the right, I appeared in the "Telegraph" in 1969 on the sports page for competing an unassisted triple play in a baseball game, a feat rarer than a no-hitter. You'll also me on the front page of the Telegraph in 1974 at Erion Field. I've also been in the Raymond Times, , Manchester Union Leader, and the Lawrence Eagle Tribune. In addition to being in the newspapers, I had several of my photos published and my fire video has been on television a dozen times. I also directed and edited historical and civic documentaries for local television.

I have to say, my dad got much more ink in his younger days. He played baseball for the West End Hobos and had a stint playing with the Nashua Dodgers. He was also quite a basketball player on a local traveling team.

In my career I have held positions as an electronic tech, telecommunications engineers, and SQA specialist. Some of the places I have worked at include The Nashua Telegraph, Stead Aviation, Cadec Systems, PictureTel, Hewlett-Packard, Rockwell Automation (Allen-Bradley). I've worked six months at Logan Airport and 12 years at Grenier Field/Manchester Airport.

Photography, writing, history and hiking are my non-radio hobbies. I get the hiking from my mom, who with her dad, climbed Mount Washington. I twice climbed Mount Lafayette (5260') above Franconia Notch with my mom when she was in her sixties.

The photography hobby I picked up from my dad. My photo collection endeavors include visiting nearly 260 cities and towns in New Hampshire and photographing various landmarks. I been to every place in New Hampshire with a population of one and several places with no official population.

I've written for several amateur and scanner related publication including the RCMA Journal, Scanner Digest, 73, Scanning USA, Radio Fun, and the Official Scanner Guides. My photographs have been published by locally and nationally.


Note: The webmaster is not responsible for association membership inquires. Use the address and application links shown above




Publication Policy

The website content is provided courtesy of John Bolduc, SW91, to promote public safety interest and interest in the Statewide Notification Association. As publisher, editor, and writer for the website, John Bolduc is solely responsible for the content of the web site, except where noted. Except where noted, content of this web site does not necessarily represent the views and official positions of Statewide Notification Association, its directors or members.

The Directors Corner section of the home page contains official communication from Statewide for which Statewide is responsible for. Certain press releases, where noted, are the responsibility of the providing agency.

The editor of this web page, John Bolduc, has the right to, but is not limited to, edit unsolicited articles, unsolicited notices, and unsolicited photographs, unsolicited audio for content, brevity, clarity, fit, spelling, grammar, good taste, and perspective. Any non-solicited items presented for publication which demand no editing, will not be considered for publication. In case of dispute over edited content, the publisher, John Bolduc, will act as arbitrator. Solicited material without clear instruction not to do otherwise is also subject to the same editorial and publishing guidelines.

Policy regarding the publication of photos and articles will follow the general practice of New Hampshire Print Media and New Hampshire Media Web Sites.

Visuals have a tremendous impact on our readers. Follow good taste and good sense. As in the area of taste, this should be should be balanced with an accurate depiction of the scene, subject, or item. The editor reserves the right to not publish photos considered grotesquely in bad taste.
Photographs should never mislead the reader regarding their content, time or place of the information depicted. All environmental portraits or situations should be executed in a manner that makes the context obvious to the reader. For example, at an accident scene, photos including patients encompass enough of the background to show they are at the scene of an accident, not just a tight close-up portraying the patients only.

Photo illustrations can be misleading, so they should be clearly labeled as photo illustrations. Illustrations are defined as any photo that has been altered beyond burning, dodging and color correction. Here's an easy way to evaluate whether the illustration is a photo or photo illustration: If you couldn't make the changes using a standard photography darkroom, the photo is an illustration. Image enhancement for technical clarity is always permissible.

All people who can be identified in photos should be identified either by name or by a descriptor, such as Manchester Firefighter, or burn victim.

Avoid undercover or other surreptitious methods of gathering photographs.

Extremely graphic photos will not be run. This policy includes photos of dead bodies, badly injured patients, or other distasteful material not appropriate to a regular print newspaper.

The right to publish photos of civilians and public officials in public, not for overt financial gain and displayed not in a purposely libelous manner, is protected by Federal and State Law and has a basis in the Federal Constitution.

In cases of questionable content, examples of items from NH Media outlets will serve as a guide. For example, this website has had some photos submitted to it that raised some questions of appropriateness to display. However, after these very same photos appeared in several media outlets, including WMUR-TV and the Keene Sentinel, the decision to publish on this web site was approved. In no case will blood and gore be depicted.

Where no examples can be found from NH media outlets, the following guidelines with be followed:

Minimizing harm to subjects in photographs and articles:
Ethical photographers treat sources, subjects and colleagues as human beings deserving of respect. Photographers and reports should: Show compassion for those who may be affected adversely by news coverage. Use special sensitivity when dealing with children and inexperienced sources or subjects.

Be sensitive when seeking or using interviews or photographs of those affected by tragedy or grief.

Recognize that gathering and reporting information may cause harm or discomfort. Pursuit of the news is not a license for arrogance.

Recognize that private people have a greater right to control information about themselves than do public officials and others who seek power, influence or attention. Only an overriding public need can justify intrusion into anyone's privacy.

Show good taste. Avoid pandering to lurid curiosity.

Be cautious about identifying juveniles by name.

The text and photographic content also presented under the guidance of the Recreational Software Advisory Council, and Safesurf using Platform for Internet Content Selection rating system. This site adheres to the PICS, Censorship, & Intellectual Freedom standards.

SAFESURF RATING IS AS FOLLOWS:
Age Range : Teens
Violence : Technical Reference
Other Adult Themes : Graphic

RSAC/ICRA RATING IS AS FOLLOWS:
Material that might disturb young children

Items of a commercial nature are provided only for the interest of the website visitors and no consideration has been offered to the webmaster for its display. Statewidewebmaster (at) yahoo (dot) com



SWNHNA Channel Plan
Ch 1 - Dispatch 461.400 Peterborough WNLY845
Ch 2 - Alt Dispatch, Fireground 461.125 Goffstown
Ch 3 - Alt Dispatch, Fireground 461.625 Chester
Intergroup - Cooperative Repeater among groups 461.275 Deerfield


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